I started reading this handbook in December and read the first third during the Christmas break. I read the second third in February/March, while waiting for my new foot brace to be modified over and over and over. And I finally managed to finish the darn thing during the last week of May, after university... Lire la Suite →

This book was very detailed, very fascinating, and very long. It was more readily interesting than No Stone Unturned, more exciting than Book and Dagger, and a lot easier to understand than The Code Breaker, but these four books are of similar length and they all describe something extremely important in extensive detail. In his... Lire la Suite →

I have always liked historical fiction, especially when it sends me to Wikipedia to verify facts and learn more about them all the time. The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon definitely did that! The novel imagines Aristotle's time as tutor to Alexander the Great when he was young. That may not sound like the most... Lire la Suite →

What I liked about this book: It was not just about the US. It was absolutely fascinating, shocking, and very eye-opening about our "western" societies. What I disliked about this book: It was at times very philosophical and abstract, and it did not always provide enough concrete examples. It took me a huge amount of... Lire la Suite →

This was the first Isabel Allende book I read and it was not bad. It is the story of a Jewish woman, Alma, and a Japanese man, Ichime, who meet in San Francisco while they are children and who love each other for the rest of their lives, even though they spend most of their... Lire la Suite →

This book, by Tasmanian author Rachael Treasure, was a happy book. Well, not the first half of the book, which was really difficult to read because the main character, Connie, had just come back from university without a diploma and in disgrace and traumatised, and her family really made her pay for it. Connie hated... Lire la Suite →

This was one of the oddest, most random books I've read. It is a collection of stories written by B.J. Novak, with also some stories that seem to come from newspapers or magazines, or something else that I didn't understand. Or maybe he wrote everything and confusing his readers was the point. Some stories are long,... Lire la Suite →

Richard Powers' book Playground was quite long and very complex, and it addressed many, many different themes. The main theme, although you don't realize that until the end of the book, is artificial intelligence, and then you have friendship, racism, family, money, ecology, feminism, dementia, economic development... There were parts that I absolutely loved, there were... Lire la Suite →

This was one of the most shocking books I've read in a long time! Sarah Wynn-Williams worked at Facebook for five years before she was fired, and she tells the story of Facebook's development not only as a social media platform but also as an international tool of information control and citizen surveillance. I can imagine... Lire la Suite →

This book, by Scott Galloway, was ok. It was short and had a few good pieces of information, but overall it was quite repetitive and family focused. Basically, if you're not married and if you don't have children, you're never going to be truly happy. So... The writer is rich, white, healthy, smart, and very... Lire la Suite →

This tiny book by Stewart "Brittlestar" Reynolds is very cute and quite funny. Nothing super intellectual or deep or earth-shattering, but I really enjoyed the jabs the author takes at a certain orangeness and the digs he makes at a certain right-leaning party. And of course, I loved the very accurate descriptions of cats and... Lire la Suite →

Real Estate, by Deborah Levy, is the last book in her trilogy (the first one was Things I Don't Want to Know, and the second one was The Cost of Living). This was not my favourite of the three, but it was still interesting and enjoyable and sometimes funny. In this book, Deborah talks about... Lire la Suite →

When you think about deadly diseases, you usually don't think you'll want to read a whole book about it and laugh and cry and be angry together with the author and learn a few things along the way and truly enjoy it, but that's exactly what John Green has done, something pretty incredible and fascinating... Lire la Suite →

This book, written by Dave Eggers, tells the true story of a young Sudanese boy, Achak Deng, who has to flee his village because of the civil war between northern and southern Sudan. Achak was one of the thousands of "Lost Boys" who became refugees first in Ethiopia and then in Kenya. This is a... Lire la Suite →

I found this book, by Virginia Evans, while looking for something else, and I thought it looked interesting. I am so glad I got it! It was a very funny and sad and beautiful book, and I really loved it! It tells the story, through letters, of an old woman who used to be a... Lire la Suite →